‘ Some South Africans claim to be shocked by Anni Dewani's killing. How can they be, when so many lose their lives?’ asks Kevin Bloom in the Guardian…

“Early on the morning of 17 April 2006, my sister called to tell me through her tears that our cousin, Richard Bloom, had been murdered (the day before). His naked body had been found next to a freeway in Cape Town. Lying dead beside him was his close friend Brett Goldin, a talented young actor who was shortly to have flown to the UK to perform with the Royal Shakespeare Company.

“At the time of the call I was on a journalism assignment in the province of Mpumalanga, but I managed to arrange a ride back to Johannesburg. The driver, familiar with Brett's work, agreed to stay tuned to a news radio channel for the duration of the journey. From the half-hourly bulletins, two things became clear: the police were prioritising the case, and the media were elevating it to the status of "high profile"…

Clothes designer Richard Bloom and actor/author Brett Goldin, picture, were killed on April 16 2006 with single shots to the head in Mowbray, Cape Town. They were carjacked, assaulted, stripped naked and executed. Designer Bloom was label manager for Maze clothing. [1]

The killers, two Afrikaans-speaking coloured township residents Shavaan Marlie (25) and Clinton Davids (23) who reportedly had been high on ‘tik’ when they killed the two Jewish men, were found guilty and sentenced to 28 years behind bars on May 22 2007. Somehow no details were published whether anything was actually ‘robbed’ – however the emphasis in the left-wing UK news media about the double-murder always centered around the ‘poverty in the townships’. The trial was controversial because of the way it was handled by the now disbarred judge John Hlophe: spectators who had streamed into the courtroom anticipating a day of sensational evidence, instead were shocked as a plea bargain resulted in swift proceedings - Judge John Hlophe pronounced a guilty verdict and then quickly passed sentence. Marlie and Davids quickly pleaded guilty.

The ANC-regime did not want every little detail splashed all over the front pages of the UK news media…

Ironically in 2004, Goldin ‘s first play was a one-man show entitled Bad Apple, which examined what would happen if a Columbine-style killing spree were to occur at a wealthy public school in Johannesburg... The production opened at the Intimate Theatre in Cape Town, directed by Matthew Wild on August 11, 2004. The production received excellent reviews from the local press… Goldin had been all set to go to the United Kingdom as part of a South African production of Hamlet in Stratford-upon-Avonbefore he was murdered.

Picture: Richard Bloom Foundation set up: In 2006, designer Craig Port established a foundation to honour the memory of his protege and friend Richard Bloom, who was tragically murdered in 2005. Through this foundation, which is about investing in young design talent, Port established the Richard Bloom Bursary to the value of R30,000. Local fashion-design students who participated in the Fashion Eye student design competition run by Pursuit Magazine were offered the opportunity to receive this bursary, which would be awarded to one deserving student to assist them with their studies.

In Murder Most Foul, Sher and Blair examine “the dark underbelly of crime in a young democracy”. SA expat Sir Antony Sher is one of Britain's foremost actors who became obsessed with Goldin's murder Sher returns to the country of his birth with director Jon Blair. Using the Goldin and Bloom murders as a starting-point, their investigation “uncovered the harrowing truth that 13 years after the arrival of democracy in South Africa, the country is suffering one of the highest murder rates in the world”… And they didn’t examine the ‘culpible homicide’ rate in their ‘statistics’ either… . In Murder Most Foul, Sher and Blair retrace the steps which lead to Goldin and Bloom’s murder, and provide all the usual liberal excuses: visiting the ‘Tik-riddled Cape Flats and ‘come face-to-face with ordinary South Africans who live with violence on a daily basis.”.http://www.mediaupdate.co.za/?IDStory=2357

The term "genocide" was coined by legal scholar Raphael Lemkin in 1943, writing:

'Generally speaking, genocide does not necessarily mean the immediate destruction of a nation, except when accomplished by mass killings of all members of a nation. It is intended rather to signify a coordinated plan of different actionsaiming at the destruction of essential foundations of the life of national groups, with the aim of annihilating the groups themselves.

The objectives of such a plan would be the disintegration of the political and social institutions, of culture, language, national feelings, religion, and the economic existence of national groups, and the destruction of personal security, liberty, health, dignity and lives of the members of such groups... '